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Indie Orientali - Maffei, Giovanni Pietro

The Histories of the East Indies, 1589

Estimate

€ 500 - 600

Sold

€ 640

The price includes buyer's premium

Information

Florence, Filippo Giunti, 1589. In 4°. Title page with typographic brand, typographic friezes engraved in woodwood , lined frontispiece, halos and stains, some papers with losses in the margins, binding from the 16th century. XIX in half parchment, slight defects.


Specialist Notes

First edition of the work, published in Florence by Filippo Giunti.  The Stories< /span> they can be considered Maffei's literary masterpiece and enjoyed on the basis of in the interest generated around the missions in the New World and in the rediscovered ancient Asian worlds, of a relevant contemporary success that materialized in numerous editions.

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